From one of the Tokyo government’s latest policy documents, outlining their plans for enforcing a “gender equality” regime on the people of Tokyo:

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However, much media information is based on sexual stereotypes and frequently depicts sexual violence towards women and children, and this is one of the prime impediments to gender equality.

According to cabinet surveys, 80% of people now think there are problems with depictions of sex and violence on TV and the Internet.

Freedom of expression should be respected, but it is also necessary to adequately respect the human rights of the people being depicted to not be the subject of unpleasant sexual or violent expression in the public media.

Tokyo recently revised its ordinance for the healthy development of youth, and also established Tokyo’s duty to allow the healthy development of young people by restrictions on their Internet environment and the eradication of child pornography.

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Our policy direction:

It is necessary to demand media undertake to voluntarily censor themselves with regard to depictions of sex and violence.

Tokyo must ensure publishers and advertisers do not promote sexual discrimination.

All media must thoroughly uphold moral restrictions [on their publications].

It would appear Tokyo has finally succeeded in combining both right-wing demands for censorship on the grounds of upholding public morals and left-wing demands for censorship on feminist and “human rights” (i.e. those of the people depicted in or exposed to the expression of others) grounds.

Online there is not much surprise – it was long obvious to all but the most deluded apologists that Tokyo’s manga ban was the thin end of the wedge, and that Ishihara and company would simply keep tightening censorship until only rape novels and pornographic videos remain:

“You’re all done for!”

“Is there anything these people don’t want to ban?”

“He can’t get it up any more so all ero is banned, eh?”

“I would think most men in anime are the ones being abused.”

“Do something about him before this spreads over the rest of the country!”

majority of japanese people arent anime/games fanatic.. and seeing as how anime has been demonised by the media, and how creepy some otaku acts... majority of people are going to vote for this douche...

You got to be kidding....Actually all todays people are puritains when it comes to any form of nudity some has the "malaise" of the rigifying penis and some wants to keep their newgiven image as tough and rigidely serious.

Seriously speaking though, shouldn't he first start with Yaoi? It's depicting men as weak, girly, and extremely submissive, that and the homosexual themes (I have nothing against homosexuality, however since Ishihara is being a total prick, the situation calls for it), and the fact that some of it is hardcore gay porn, and for WOMEN no less is just disturbingly unpleasant.

Anime and manga is already much more tolerant towards women and kids than the actual Japanese society (I mean, take the example of Madoka's dad Tomohisa which was a house-husband while his wife was a manager.)

The actual sexual discrimination on Japanese media is about 99% of their porn, which is pretty much based on peeing, shitting, cuming on women and publicly humiliating them in sexual ways.

Of course, one might ask then, what made Ishihara change his position so much, considering stories like these was his specialty when he was younger.

>Japanese journalists
Actually the situation is even worse. Japanese journalists get a lot of their news in the form of press releases, provided to them by the press office of the organisations / companies they're writing about. It may seem swell that you often get a lot of inside contacts and such, but write an overly critical article and you're cut off, and all organisations will close their doors to you. And that's the end of your career.
Japanese journalists aren't journalists - they're press release editors and embellishers.

Such questions require a free thinker. Japanese are like ants they just go with the group they ain't free thinkers.
This helps them build great staff and be very organized but boy do the seem soulless. They are like god damn puppets.

I'm a woman and I say SCREW YOU ISHITHARA (and not in the nice, naughty way)! Stop using us women and kids as an excuse for your vile intolerance and discrimination, you make me sick to the stomach! I'll enjoy my hardcore porn and vanilla goodness in both 2D and 3D, thank you very much!

So what if yaku is foreign, don't you guys get anime shown on tv? I sure do. Our countries still support their industry, however little it maybe, but nevertheless she can still have a say as a viewer don't you think.

Nope, no yaoi or traps. He's making it seem as though he's favoring women to get their favor, but in the end he aims to piss everyone off.

I have no problem with yaoi or shonen-ai or traps, because I think everyone's fetishes should be fairly represented. I'm not going to bitch whenever I see yaoi because I don't need to prove anything to anyone by doing so, and because I know tons of girls like it.

But Ishihara is also against any gay sex, which he deems as "harmful." So some of the stuff girls like is out the window too.